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Comment author: seer 30 March 2015 08:44:51AM 5 points [-]

Both the Roman and especially Charlemagne's empires were archipelagos compared to today's states. Both contained many sub-states that where mostly left to govern themselves as long as they acknowledged imperial authority and paid taxes.